Andrew Ruben

Andrew Ruben has more than 25 years of experience across a wide range of practice areas, including mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial real estate development and construction, private equity investment, tax exempt bonds and tax credit programs, securities law, and general corporate law. Andrew also manages significant litigation and dispute resolution matters for his real estate and construction clients, and is the head of the Firm’s construction practice, as well as its bond, tax credit and public incentives practice.  This broad foundation provides Andrew with a deep understanding of a wide range of business, real estate, finance, construction and economic development issues and he routinely provides legal, strategic and business counsel in these areas to individual business owners, startups, for-profit and non-profit companies, senior management and boards of directors. Andrew has negotiated and documented a wide variety of complex commercial transactions over his career, including all forms of real estate, development and construction projects and agreements, and has closed more than two billion ($2B) in real estate, bond, tax credit and M&A transactions in just the last three years.  Andrew also currently acts as outside General Counsel to a number of his clients, including a major Registered Investment Advisory firm, a national financial services consulting firm, two national real estate development firms, a real estate private equity firm, a leading tax credit and incentives consulting firm, the St. Louis County Port Authority, and many other smaller companies and businesses.

Andrew also has significant public and quasi-public sector experience, having served almost six years as General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Real Estate to the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership and the other entities under its umbrella, including the St. Louis County Port Authority, St. Louis Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, World Trade Center – St. Louis and St. Louis County Industrial Development Authority.

Prior to his tenure with the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, Andrew spent ten years in private practice at two of the country’s largest law firms, where he worked in the areas of corporate finance and securities, real estate development and acquisitions, general corporate law, project finance and complex commercial construction and commercial litigation and arbitration.

Before attending law school, Andrew was a professional cellist and performed over 300 chamber music concerts around the world as a founding member and cellist of the Rackham String Quartet.